It all started in 1970 when Peter Loewen, who had immigrated to Canada some years earlier with his family from South America, decided to start a simple cabinet company with a strong commitment to workmanship and enduring quality.  The rest, as they say, is history.     Today Columbia Cabinets has become one of the most respected cabinet companies of its kind in Western Canada and the Western United States.  Columbia craftsmen, many with over 20 years of experience in cabinetmaking, work out of a modern, high tech 100,000 sq. ft. plant ideally located in Abbotsford, British Columbia, just a few miles from the U.S. border